'Tis The Season For Burnout
This week Louisville Lectures will be taking a break. You should too - but you can't! Here are a couple of lectures that could be useful for this upcoming season:
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Boot Camp: Phase 1
As we welcome a new class of interns this July, our Louisville Lectures team wanted to highlight some of our most-viewed lectures. Our Boot Camp series will cover high-yield, critical topics that are useful to starting interns. We are starting with some basic EKG concepts and arrhythmia emergencies. Dr. Martin Espinoza and Dr. Lorrell Brown deliver two highly-watched videos.
Read MoreAcute Coronary Syndromes 101 with Dr. Brown
In this action-packed lecture, Dr. Lorrel Brown covers ACS basics: coronary perfusion, types of myocardial infarction, and how to diagnose MI using history exam and EKG findings. She reviews ACS risk scores, acute treatment of ACS and some common pitfalls.
Read MoreBradyArrythmias with Dr. Brown
Dr. Lorrel Brown recaps the electrical system of the heart then uses cases to discuss AV blocks and reviews many EKGs! This your chance to get inside the brain of a cardiologist!
Read MoreA-fib and A-flutter Concepts with Dr. Espinosa
Dr. Martin Espinoza covers differentiating Afib from Aflutter based on ECG features. Then he delves into therapeutic options including answering some FAQs of house staff officers.
Read MoreArrhythmia Concepts, Tachycardias with Dr. Espinosa
Dr. Espinoza covers basic cardiac electrophysiology and what happens when it goes awry! He discusses supraventricular tachycardias (sinus tachycardia, atrial tachycardia, AVRT, AVNRT), atrial fibrillation and flutter, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. He discusses recognizing features of ventricular tachycardia to differentiate it from SVT. Finally, he addresses management of tachycardias.
Read MoreEmergency Arrhythmias 101 with Dr. Brown
Or Why Electricity is Good For Patients. In this lecture, Dr. Lorrel Brown distills the scary heart rhythms into easy to remember principles and helps ease the heart pains of house staff officers.
Read MoreEKG Boot Camp! With Dr. Martin Espinosa
EKGs. Your Cardiology attending makes it look like it's something you should have mastered in pre-school, and when you ask your fellow explain what a J-point is, it turns in to an opportunity to "broaden your reading"...
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